Level design: Concept, theory, and practice

Level Design: Concept, Theory, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-381

  Kremers, Rudolf ^a  

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EID: 85055790697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b10933     Document Type: Book

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